August 30, 2016
Social media is all over the place. You see acronyms like LOL, BTW, TOT and so on. These are the more common abbreviations, but what does FART mean? With tshirt quilts, we have several shortcuts that might seem Greek to you. Earlier, I was watching a YouTube video and literally SMD (spit my drink) while watching silly animals. These are some more commonly used acronyms that quilters use, not necessarily pertaining to tshirt quits.
BITE Beige, Ivory, Tan, Ecru (Fabric background color choices)
BOB Beginner's Only Block (swap)
BOM Block Of the Month
BOW Block of the Week
BTW By The Way
B9P Blooming Nine Patch (quilt pattern)
COC Cream on Cream (fabric)
CW Civil War
D9P Disappearing Nine Patch (quilt pattern)
DH Dear/Darn/Darling Husband
DSM Domestic Sewing Machine (home sewing machine, not long arm)
DWR Double Wedding Ring (quilt pattern)
EQ Electric Quilt (a software package for designing quilts)
FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
FG Flying Geese
FIU Finish It Up
FLIMSY A completed quilt top, not quilted
FROG STITCHING - ripping out stitched seams (rip it, rip it)
FQ Fat Quarter
GFG Grandmother's Flower Garden (quilt pattern)
GITERDONE Get 'er Done! Term most often used for ancient or dreaded projects
HST Half-Square Triangle
HSY Haven’t Started Yet
HTH Hope That Helps
ICE Ivory, Cream, Ecru (Fabric background color choices)
IMHO In My Honest/Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
ISO In Search Of
LAQ Long Arm Quilter
LC Log Cabin (quilt pattern)
LOL Lots Of Laughter or Lots of Love or Laugh Out Loud
LQS Local Quilt Shop
MAM Mile-A-Minute (a modern version of crazy quilt block)
MAQ Mid Arm Quilter
NQR Non Quilt Related
OBW One Block Wonder (quilt pattern)
OT Off Topic
OTOH On The Other Hand
PHD Project Half Done
PIGS Project(s) In Grocery Sacks
QIMM Quilts in My Mind
QST Quarter Square Triangle
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROFLOL Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
SABLE Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
SBS Sunbonnet Sue (quilt pattern)
SEX Stash Enhancing eXperience
SID Stitch-in-the-ditch quilting
SITP Shakespeare In the Park (quilt pattern)
SQUISHY Envelopes filled with swap fabric or gifts sent/received in the mail
STASH Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
SUI Shopping Under Influence (usually with a friend)
TBQ To Be Quilted
TGIF Thank Goodness It’s Finished
TOAD Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust
TOT Tone-on-Tone (fabric)
TY Thank You
UFO UnFinished Object
WAYWO What Are You Working On
WHIMM Works Hidden In My Mind
WIP Work In Progress
WISP Work In Slow Progress
WIWMI Wish It Would Make Itself
WOC White on Cream (fabric)
WOF Width of Fabric
WOMBAT Waste Of Material, Batting, And Time
WOW White On White (fabric)
WWIT What Was I Thinking
YBR Yellow Brick Road (quilt pattern)
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